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A 2007 report found that about one-third of District residents were functionally illiterate compared to a national rate of about one in five This is attributed in part to immigrants who are not proficient in English as of 2011 85% of D.C residents age 5 and older spoke English at home as a primary language. Half of residents had at least a four-year college degree in 2006 in 2017 the median household income in D.C was $77,649; also in 2017 D.C residents had a personal income per capita of $50,832 (higher than any of the 50 states). However 19% of residents were below the poverty level in 2005 higher than any state except Mississippi.[f]. Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States: Castries Robert E Lee wrote in 1856: Free states in early 1850. Most Washington citizens embraced the arriving troops although there were pockets of apathy and Southern sympathy Upon hearing a Union regiment singing "John Brown's Body" as the soldiers marched beneath her window resident Julia Ward Howe wrote the patriotic "Battle Hymn of the Republic" to the same tune, After burning the Capitol the British turned northwest up Pennsylvania Avenue toward the White House After US government officials and President Madison fled the city the First Lady Dolley Madison received a letter from her husband urging her to be prepared to leave Washington at a moment's notice. Dolley organized the slaves and staff to save valuables from the British. James Madison's personal slave the fifteen-year-old boy Paul Jennings was an eyewitness. After later buying his freedom from the widow Dolley Madison Jennings published his memoir in 1865 considered the first from the White House:, Main articles: Theater in Washington D.C and Music of Washington D.C. In July 1777 British General John Burgoyne led the Saratoga campaign south from Quebec through Lake Champlain and recaptured Fort Ticonderoga with the objective of dividing New England including control of the Hudson River But General Howe in British-occupied New York blundered taking his army south to Philadelphia rather than up the Hudson River to join Burgoyne near Albany. Meanwhile Washington and Lafayette rushed to Philadelphia to engage Howe and were shocked to learn of Burgoyne's progress in upstate New York where the Patriots were led by General Philip Schuyler and successor Horatio Gates Washington's army of less experienced men were defeated in the pitched battles at Philadelphia. . ! Howe's troop strength totaled 32,000 regulars and Hessians and Washington's consisted of 23,000 mostly raw recruits and militia in August Howe landed 20,000 troops at Gravesend Brooklyn and approached Washington's fortifications as King George III proclaimed the rebellious American colonists to be traitors. Washington opposing his generals chose to fight based on inaccurate information that Howe's army had only 8,000 plus troops. Howe assaulted Washington's flank and inflicted 1,500 Patriot casualties with the British suffering 400. Washington retreated instructing General William Heath to acquisition river craft in the area On August 30 General William Alexander held off the British and gave cover while the army crossed the East River under darkness to Manhattan Island without loss of life or material although Alexander was captured.

. Military hostilities begin George Wythe Virginia 1 Yes Early in 1775 in response to the growing rebellious movement including the Boston Tea Party Parliament sent British troops commanded by General Thomas Gage to occupy Boston disband the local provincial government and quell the growing state of rebellion the British set up fortifications about the city making it impervious to attack in response various state militias surrounded the city and effectively trapped the British resulting in a standoff, 4 Planned capitals Constitution of the United States Historian David Herbert Donald described the speech as a "superb political move for an unannounced candidate to appear in one rival's (Seward) own state at an event sponsored by the second rival's (Chase) loyalists while not mentioning either by name during its delivery".:240 in response to an inquiry about his ambitions Lincoln said "The taste is in my mouth a little.":241. Gradual emancipation in New York (starting 1799) and New Jersey (starting 1804), In 1830 a disgruntled ex-employee of the estate attempted to steal what he thought was Washington's skull prompting the construction of a more secure vault the next year the new vault was constructed at Mount Vernon to receive the remains of George and Martha and other relatives in 1832 a joint Congressional committee debated moving his body from Mount Vernon to a crypt in the Capitol the crypt had been built by architect Charles Bulfinch in the 1820s during the reconstruction of the burned-out capital after the Burning of Washington by the British during the War of 1812 Southern opposition was intense antagonized by an ever-growing rift between North and South; many were concerned that Washington's remains could end up on "a shore foreign to his native soil" if the country became divided and Washington's remains stayed in Mount Vernon. . . Read's entry into the political arena was as a commissioner of the town of Charlestown Maryland. Washington Gas is the city's natural gas utility and serves over one million customers in the District and its suburbs Incorporated by Congress in 1848 the company installed the city's first gas lights in the Capitol the White House and along Pennsylvania Avenue. Underground Railroad 9 See also, Washington received his initial military training and command with the Virginia Regiment during the French and Indian War He was later elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses and was named a delegate to the Continental Congress where he was appointed Commanding General of the Continental Army He commanded American forces allied with France in the defeat and surrender of the British during the Siege of Yorktown and resigned his commission in 1783 after the signing of the Treaty of Paris.